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Johannes Ockeghem

Complete Works Volume 3
Arranged for French Horn Ensemble

Almost randomly I chose to look into the music of Ockeghem (I think his name is pronounced okay-gem.) There are three big volumes of his surviving collected works, so since I have recorded all of his works. I am presenting them in three volumes (CD98A, CD98B &C.)

Volume one is his Masses No.'s 1 - 8 (find all notes on this page.)

Volume two is his Masses No.'s 9-14 (click here for that page.)

Volume three is his Motets and Chansons (click here.)

Before I started over with the project, I recorded over 80 minutes of music. These works recorded were mostly four part works and I used my Finke triple horn for the upper two voices and a Kruspe double horn that look just like a conn 8D for the lower voices. I will makes these available somewhere. XXX

Released: May 15, 2025

Richard Burdick’s multi-track horn ensemble

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Recorded at A = 432 for health and greater beauty

Renaissance Composer:

Johannes Ockeghem (1430-1497)

The earliest reference to Ockeghem as a singer shows that he was a vicaire-chanteur at Notre Dame, Antwerp, for a year from June 24, 1443. His déploration on Binchois’s death (1460) suggests a connection with the Burgundian ducal chapel where Busnois and Dufay worked. He entered the service of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, in Moulins in the mid-1440s and was a member of the chapel in 1446-48. In the year ending September 30, 1453, he is cited in the French court archives ‘nouveau en 1451’. This service continued during Louis XI’s reign, though he held other offices, including a canonry at Notre Dame, Paris (1463-70). In 1470 he visited Spain, in 1484 Bruges and Dammes. After Louis’s death he remained premier chapelain and was still on the payroll in 1488. He enjoyed an enviable personal and professional reputation. His most imposing works are his Mass settings. Several are based on pre-existing material, sacred or secular. The level of contrapuntal skill and artistic excellence of his music laid a foundation for the achievements of Josquin’s generation.

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MOTETS

UNDISPUTED

1. Intermerata Dei mater2. Alma Redemptoris mater

3. Ave Maria

4. Salve regina (1)

5. Ut heremita solus

6. Vivit Dominus

DOUBTFUL

7. Caeleste beneficium

8. Deo gratia (Canon XXXVI vocum)

9. Gaude Maria

10. Salve regina (II)

CHANSONS

UNDISPUTED

11. Aultre Venus

12. Baisiés moy

13. D'un autre amer

14. Fors seulement l'actente

15. Fors seullement contre

16. Il ne m'en chault

17. J'en ay dueil

18. La descpourveue

19. L'autre d'antan

20. Les desléaulx

21. Ma bouche rit

22. Ma maistresse

23. Mort tu as navré

24. O rosa bella

25. Prenez sur moi (Fuga trium vocum)

26. Prenez transi

27. Quant de vouos seul

28. Qu'es mi vida

28a. Qu'es mi vida (Johannes Cornago)

29. S'elle m'amera--Petite camusete

30. Se vostre cuer

30. Tant fuz gentement

32. Ung aultre l'a

DOUBTFUL

33. Au travial suis

34. Departés vous

35. Malheur me bat

17a. J'en ay dueil36. Permanent vierge

SUPPLEMENT

37. Ergone conticuit ("In Ioannem Okegi Musicorum principem Naenia") (Johannes Lupi?)

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